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Show REIGN OF TERROR BEGUNJN DUBLIN CIVILIANS AND 80LDIER8 8HOT DOWN IN CLASH BETWEEN WARRING FACTIONS. Small Bodies of Men Enter Homes and Murder Victims In Bed or Whllo at Breakfast Ten Killed at Football Game. Dublin. This city became the scene Sunday of far-spread murder and reprisal. re-prisal. Not since tho first outbreak of tho vicious civil wnrfaro that has been shedding blood In Ireland have the nssassluntlons been so concerted or tho retaliation so swift ant) pronounced. pro-nounced. Not less thnn fourteen men nro known dead n tho attacks arranged simultaneously all over tho city Sunday Sun-day morning. Tho method wns the same In ench ense, and all the men assassl anted wero officers or former officers, or otherwise In tho service of tho government. Shooting began ngaln In tho streets Just heforo midnight unit a number of persons nro reported klllod. The casualties In Croko park, whero a football gamo was In progress, nre officially given as ten killed and sixty-flvo sixty-flvo Injured, cloven seriously. Small bodies of men, numbering generally from six to eight, presented themselves at various houses, culled their victims out or entered nnd shot them In bed, whllo dressing or at breakfast. Tho districts In. which the murders wero committed nro In some Instances closo togother; others arc sepuratcd by miles; but all the assassinations as-sassinations took plnco about the same hour, 0 o'clock In the morning. In tho afternoon nt Croke park sixteen six-teen lorries filled with auxiliary po-Hco po-Hco moved nwlftly up and surrounded tho place. Accounts differ ns to what happened when, after mounting machine guns on heights nbovc, tho pollco broke through tho gates. Tho auxiliaries wero hooted and, according to eyewitnesses, eye-witnesses, first fired Into the uir ana then Into the crowd. It Is declared from another sourco thnt tho Sinn Fein pickets first fired on too government govern-ment forces when they were seen i.p-pronchlng i.p-pronchlng and thnt tho flro was re turned. Within tho pnrk tho great assembly of 15,000 becamo panic-stricken. Severn! Sev-ern! nre reported to huvo been trampled to deuth. |